Isaiah 26:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

As a woman with child, whose time is near, is troubled, crying out in her pain; so have we been before you, O Lord.

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Referenced Verses

  • John 16:21 : 21 When a woman is about to give birth she has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the child, the pain is put out of her mind by the joy that a man has come into the world.
  • Isa 13:8 : 8 Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames.
  • Isa 21:3 : 3 For this cause I am full of bitter grief; pains like the pains of a woman in childbirth have come on me: I am bent down with sorrow at what comes to my ears; I am shocked by what I see.
  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.
  • Ps 48:6 : 6 Shaking came on them and pain, as on a woman in childbirth.
  • Jer 4:31 : 31 A voice has come to my ears like the voice of a woman in birth-pains, the pain of one giving birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, fighting for breath, stretching out her hands, saying, Now sorrow is mine! for my strength is gone from me before the takers of life.
  • Jer 6:24 : 24 The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.
  • Jer 30:6 : 6 Put the question and see if it is possible for a man to have birth-pains: why do I see every man with his hands gripping his sides, as a woman does when the pains of birth are on her, and all faces are turned green?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 26:18
    88%

    18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have given birth to wind; no salvation has come to the earth through us, and no children have come into the world.

  • Jer 6:24
    81%

    24 The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.

  • Isa 26:16
    80%

    16 Lord, in trouble our eyes have been turned to you, we sent up a prayer when your punishment was on us.

  • Isa 21:3
    79%

    3 For this cause I am full of bitter grief; pains like the pains of a woman in childbirth have come on me: I am bent down with sorrow at what comes to my ears; I am shocked by what I see.

  • Mic 4:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

    9 Now why are you crying so loudly? is there no king in you? has destruction come on your wise helper? so that pains have taken you like the pains of a woman in childbirth:

    10 Be in pain, make sounds of grief, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in childbirth: for now you will go out of the town, living in the open country, and will come even to Babylon; there you will have salvation; there the Lord will make you free from the hands of your haters.

  • Jer 30:5-7
    3 verses
    77%

    5 This is what the Lord has said: A voice of shaking fear has come to our ears, of fear and not of peace.

    6 Put the question and see if it is possible for a man to have birth-pains: why do I see every man with his hands gripping his sides, as a woman does when the pains of birth are on her, and all faces are turned green?

    7 Ha! for that day is so great that there is no day like it: it is the time of Jacob's trouble: but he will get salvation from it.

  • Jer 4:31
    76%

    31 A voice has come to my ears like the voice of a woman in birth-pains, the pain of one giving birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, fighting for breath, stretching out her hands, saying, Now sorrow is mine! for my strength is gone from me before the takers of life.

  • Isa 66:7-9
    3 verses
    76%

    7 Before her pains came, she gave birth; before her pains, she gave birth to a man-child.

    8 When has such a story come to men's ears? who has seen such things? will a land come to birth in one day? will a nation be given birth in a minute? For when Zion's pains came on her, she gave birth to her children straight away.

    9 Will I by whom the birth was started, not make it complete? says the Lord. Will I who make children come to birth, let them be kept back? says your God.

  • Jer 22:23
    76%

    23 O you who are living in Lebanon, making your living-place in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied will you be when pains come on you, as on a woman in childbirth!

  • Isa 42:14
    75%

    14 I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.

  • Rev 12:2
    75%

    2 And she was with child; and she gave a cry, in the pains of childbirth.

  • Ps 48:6
    74%

    6 Shaking came on them and pain, as on a woman in childbirth.

  • John 16:21
    74%

    21 When a woman is about to give birth she has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the child, the pain is put out of her mind by the joy that a man has come into the world.

  • Isa 13:8
    73%

    8 Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames.

  • Rom 8:22
    73%

    22 For we are conscious that all living things are weeping and sorrowing in pain together till now.

  • Isa 59:11
    73%

    11 We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.

  • Hos 13:13
    72%

    13 The pains of a woman in childbirth will come on him: he is an unwise son, for at this time it is not right for him to keep his place when children come to birth.

  • Jer 13:21
    72%

    21 What will you say when he puts over you those whom you yourself have made your friends? will not pains take you like a woman in childbirth?

  • Jer 50:43
    72%

    43 The king of Babylon has had news of them, and his hands have become feeble: trouble has come on him and pain like the pain of a woman in childbirth.

  • Ps 44:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    24 Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?

    25 For our souls are crushed down to the dust: our bodies are stretched out on the earth.

  • Lam 1:20
    71%

    20 See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.

  • Jer 14:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19 Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.

    20 We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.

  • Jer 9:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18 Let them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water.

    19 For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.

  • Ps 66:11
    71%

    11 You let us be put in prison; chains were put on our legs.

  • Lam 1:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16 For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.

    17 Zion's hands are outstretched; she has no comforter; the Lord has given orders to the attackers of Jacob round about him: Jerusalem has become like an unclean thing among them.

  • Lam 1:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11 Breathing out grief all her people are looking for bread; they have given their desired things for food to give them life: see, O Lord, and take note; for she has become a thing of shame.

    12 Come to me, all you who go by! Keep your eyes on me, and see if there is any pain like the pain of my wound, which the Lord has sent on me in the day of his burning wrath.

  • Lam 2:20
    70%

    20 Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?

  • Lam 5:5
    70%

    5 Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.

  • Jer 15:9
    70%

    9 The mother of seven is without strength; her spirit is gone from her, her sun has gone down while it is still day: she has been shamed and overcome: and the rest of them I will give up to the sword before their haters, says the Lord.

  • Isa 51:19
    70%

    19 These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?

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    10 Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.

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    70%

    11 My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.

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    70%

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    69%

    17 Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.

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    69%

    15 We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.

  • Jer 20:18
    69%

    18 Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?

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    69%

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  • Mark 13:17
    69%

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